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The Shire of Coolgardie office in Kambalda.

Fee increases PremiumCoolgardie cuts tip hours and hikes commercial fees

Coolgardie shire continues to slash service opening hours and hike fees to help improve its dire financial position, with a suite of waste facility changes expected to improve its bottom line by $800,000. 

Tegan Guthrie

Anthony Francis Drake has been charged with indecently dealing with a child under the age of 13 in Nornalup, between 2014 and 2015.

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Elderly man charged with indecently dealing with a child

A Great Southern man charged with indecently dealing with a child under the age of 13 has appeared in court for the first time.

Georgia Campion

Two sisters have died in hospital following a ferocious house fire which killed a young boy and injured several family members.

The NightlyMurder charges loom for mum after fire kills three kids

A mother is set to be charged with murder after a ferocious house fire left three of her children dead, in what police believe was a deliberately lit blaze.

Katharina Loesche

Court sketch of Reagan Chown.

Courts and JusticePremium‘Officer’s own fateful decision cost him his life’: lawyer

The lawyer for a meth-affected car thief who fatally reversed over a WA police officer has told the Supreme Court that it was the officer’s own ‘fateful decision’ that cost him his life.

Emily Moulton

Police comb Kallaroo at the time of the murder. Inset: Ruth Vella.

Courts & JusticePremiumMurderer loses second appeal over wife’s horrific murder

A former insurance company employee who beat his ex-wife with a baseball bat then slit her throat in front of their young son more than 20 years ago has failed to have his conviction thrown out again.

Emily Moulton

Chairman and party spokesperson for Trumpet of Patriots Clive Palmer at the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

MiningPremiumPalmer and CITIC lawyers to puff peace pipe

A Supreme Court judge has ordered Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy and CITIC Pacific to have one last crack at mediation as they continue to fight over expansion delays at the Sino Iron project.

Neale Prior

A woman has been remanded in custody after appearing in Kununurra Magistrates Court on Monday morning charged with the murder of a man in a suspected family violence-related incident in Wyndham.

Courts & justicePremiumMurder charge for woman after killing in Wyndham

A woman has been remanded in custody after appearing in Kununurra Magistrates Court on Monday morning charged with the murder of a man in a suspected family violence-related incident in Wyndham.

Sarah Crawford

Tyrine Watkins

CrimePremiumMan arrested after allegedly removing GPS tracking device

A 37-year-old man who allegedly removed his GPS tracking device in South Hedland has been arrested by police.

Jessica Evensen

Hannah Lee Sayer has been jailed for reckless driving to escape pursuit by police.

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Pregnant woman jailed for wild police chase in Albany

A Yakamia woman who drove more than double the speed limit during a dramatic police chase through Albany’s suburbs — only stopping when her tyre fell off — has been jailed.

Melissa Sheil

Tara Michelle Enoka received the stern caution after she asked Joondalup Magistrates Court to postpone her sentencing, delaying the already-protracted matter yet again.

Courts and justicePremiumPerth’s alleged cancer scammer given stern caution in court

An aspiring boxer accused of pocketing almost $37,000 in donations after falsely claiming she was battling cancer says she wants to return the stolen cash but doesn’t know how.

Sarah Steger

David Da Costa, 57, was found with serious head injuries on Abernethy Road in the early hours of February 8, 2024.

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‘Callous’ woman jailed after leaving her ex-partner for dead

A woman left her ex-boyfriend bleeding on a major Perth road after he tumbled out of her vehicle because she didn’t want her current partner to know they had spent time together.

Rebecca Le May

Dumindunath Bandara Ekanayake has been jailed after being found with hundreds of abhorrent child exploitation images.

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Tip-off from US authorities sends porn-addict dad to jail

A Perth man has been imprisoned after being found with hundreds of abhorrent child exploitation images involving children as young as three.

Rebecca Le May

A Perth woman has been sentenced to eight years behind bars after she attempted to possess a significant amount of methamphetamine.

WA NewsVideoPremiumPerth woman jailed for eight years over meth scandal

The 35-year-old was sentenced after attempting to obtain almost 11kg of the illicit drug - imported into Australia disguised in a container labelled as wall coating.

Artemisia Blythe

Leonora’s White House Hotel.

Courts & Justice PremiumNo bail for manslaughter accused after alleged pub punch

A man accused of throwing a ‘left, right combination’ to the chin of a Leonora pub patron has been charged with manslaughter after the man died from a traumatic brain injury.

Tegan Guthrie

Kalgoorlie Courthouse.

Courts & Justice PremiumMan avoids jail for threat to ‘split’ 5yo daughter’s head

A Norseman man who threatened to split the head of his five-year-old daughter open during an ‘absolutely disgusting and atrocious’ outburst has avoided immediate jail.

Tegan Guthrie

In a dramatic announcement on Instagram Tash Peterson and her partner Jack Higgs have kissed their passports goodbye as they declare bankruptcy.

Courts & JusticePremiumTash kisses passport goodbye as she declares bankruptcy

In a dramatic announcement on Instagram the animal rights activist and her partner Jack Higgs kissed their passports goodbye as the couple declared bankruptcy.

Artemisia Blythe

Chop Chop Enterprises Pty Ltd, the body corporate for the Cloud 9, has been fined heavily after failing to comply with a direction from the City of Albany.

Massive fine PremiumCloud 9 fined half a million dollars for failing to comply

The owner of the well-known smoke shop has been fined more than half a million dollars for failing to remove signage from their Albany store 281 days after it was directed to by the local government. 

Melissa Sheil

Louise Carruthers walks out of Perth Magistrates Court on Friday afternoon.

Courts & JusticePremiumEx-CCC officer accused of relationship with inmate revealed

The identity of a former senior Corruption and Crime Commission staffer at the centre of a major scandal can be revealed for the first time, after a bid to suppress her name failed.

Rebecca Le May

Michael Jefferson Dunjey walks out of Magistrates court on Friday afternoon.

Courts & JusticeCommentsPremiumFeds seek to protect investors in Dunjey trial

Federal prosecutors fear alleged fraudster Michael Dunjey is trying to discourage former clients from engaging with investigators.

Matt Mckenzie & Neale Prior

Ransberg Pty Ltd — which now trades as WA Premix — pleaded guilty to failing to provide and maintain a safe workplace.

BusinessPremiumWA company cops massive fine after worker’s horrific injury

The court was told the employee was emptying a large waste pit in December 2020 when the gate — weighing about two tonnes — came crashing down. 

Jessica Evensen

Reagan Ainsley Chown admits he drove recklessly to escape Constable Anthony Woods.

Courts & JusticePremiumExplosive admission at alleged cop killer’s trial

A car thief who ran over a WA policeman after a high-speed chase has taken the stand.

Rebecca Le May

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ConstructionPremiumNicheliving advisers chase $1.3m Michel-Elhaj deal

Nicheliving’s one-time float advisers chasing $1.3 million on an unfortunately-timed deal with the battling builder’s boss Ronnie Michel-Elhaj.

Neale Prior

Reagan Ainsley Chown admits he drove recklessly to escape Constable Anthony Woods.

COURTS & JUSTICEPremiumCar thief labelled himself ‘the victim’ for being Tasered

A car thief who ran over a young WA policeman after a high-speed chase repeatedly blamed the officer in his interview with detectives, saying the cop had wrongly stood ‘in the line of fire’.

Rebecca Le May